Gift guides

Accessories are the default fallback gift and mostly a bad one, because fit, colour and taste are personal. These are the categories that survive not knowing.

• Gifts under $25

  Low stakes, genuinely used, and no obligation to display gratitude for a year.

• Gifts with no size to guess

  Scarves, bags and hair accessories — one size, no fit, nothing to get wrong.

• For someone with settled taste

  The good version of something they already use daily. Not a guess — a confirmation.